13 Quotes on Statesmanship

• The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

  Author: Charles Talleyrand

• It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.

  Author: Robert Owen

• Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

  Author: James Lowell

• Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

  Author: Walter Lippmann

• Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

  Author: Fletcher Knebel

• The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

  Author: Hubert Humphrey

• And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

  Author: John Grierson

• One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.

  Author: Milton Friedman

• We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

  Author: Elizabeth Elizabeth II

• Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

  Author: Chris Christie

• He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

  Author: Kenneth Baker

• To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.

  Author: Warren Austin

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